Lionel Messi broke Cesar Rodriguez's 57-year-old Barcelona career scoring record, getting his eighth hat-trick of the season in Tuesday night's Spanish League win over Granada to increase his goals total to 234.

there is no doubt he is the best in the game right now. Only thing stopping him from beaing the GOAT is his international play and how he chokes everytime. Top 3 ever for sure though

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piers morgan was saying he was the GOAT...but i still stick with maradona, until messi brings us a GODDAMN world cup title!!!

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03-20-2012, 06:35 PM

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Ronaldo breaking records too
Would love to see Messi in another league

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Originally Posted by Spiffy

there is no doubt he is the best in the game right now. Only thing stopping him from beaing the GOAT is his international play and how he chokes everytime. Top 3 ever for sure though

This.

Messi on international level is like Lebron in 4th quarter

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Originally Posted by ZlatanDrogba

Ronaldo breaking records too
Would love to see Messi in another league

Hope you're not talking about another league where their current leader just got spanked by a middle of the pack squad. I hope you don't mean that league.

I'm sure you mean the league that is home to a lot of the current World Cup Champions.

03-20-2012, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ShaDoW1

piers morgan was saying he was the GOAT...but i still stick with maradona, until messi brings us a GODDAMN world cup title!!!

Fútbol is a team game and the Argentine side isn't better than Spain or Germany, they just aren't as a team. It's not like either is getting older, especially Spain. Spanish Fútbol is continuing to pump out great players, they just won the u21 Euros.

Messi just needs to continue his dominance w/ Barcelona for many more years and he could very well end up being the best ever. He's already arguably Top 3 or 4 right now @ the age of 24.

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The most goals in Barca history.

Greatest player of our generation for SURE and perhaps the GOAT when he hangs up the boots.

03-20-2012, 07:07 PM

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Agreed! GOAT

03-20-2012, 07:25 PM

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Only 24 and already has the all time record, if he stays there for his career he will set a target nobody will be getting anywhere near

03-20-2012, 07:27 PM

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fu*king legend!

03-20-2012, 07:28 PM

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at muthafu*kas saying he's already top 5.....

Ronaldo, Pele, Maradona, Zidane >>>>> Messi

I don't give a fu*k how many goals he scores or how many times he wins CL, if he doesn't win World Cup, he'll never be top 5.....

And it's not that hard to score that many goals when you're on the most stacked team ever....He's average without Barcelona and his play at International level confirms that. Argentina was and always will be a great team with great talent. All great players that i mentioned above have all led their teams in World Cup while Messi seems to choke on regular basis.

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Originally Posted by Future

at muthafu*kas saying he's already top 5.....

Ronaldo, Pele, Maradona, Zidane >>>>> Messi

I don't give a fu*k how many goals he scores or how many times he wins CL, if he doesn't win World Cup, he'll never be top 5.....

And it's not that hard to score that many goals when you're on the most stacked team ever....He's average without Barcelona and his play at International level confirms that. Argentina was and always will be a great team with great talent. All great players that i mentioned above have all led their teams in World Cup while Messi seems to choke on regular basis.

The Madrid team Zidane and Ronaldo played in was just as stacked, nothin but world player of the years(Figo, Zidane and Ronaldo) but they still managed to win very little infact they had 1 good season.
Where is the regular basis with Messis world cups? the last one was the only real one to judge him on.

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Gramz with another Barca thread

@ Messi even being top 3 all time.

Until he does it in another league, without Xavi and Iniesta feeding him all game, then get the fu*k outta here.

CR7 dominated the Premier League and La Liga

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Originally Posted by Spiffy

there is no doubt he is the best in the game right now. Only thing stopping him from beaing the GOAT is his international play and how he chokes everytime. Top 3 ever for sure though

fu*k off

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Originally Posted by J

Until he does it in another league, without Xavi and Iniesta feeding him all game, then get the fu*k outta here.

He has torn the best English teams apart many times what chance would Wolves and Blackburn etc have? with the current state of defending in the EPL he would have a field day every saturday cause the level of play is shockingly bad

The Madrid team Zidane and Ronaldo played in was just as stacked, nothin but world player of the years but they still managed to win very little.

Where is the regular basis with Messis world cups? the last one was the only real one to judge him on.

I was referring to his whole International play and not just World Cup. He seems to choke in big games more than produce....During this past Copa America, they should've easily made it to the Finals with the team that they had but instead they barely won their group games and Messi was average at best during the whole tournament. He wasn't even the best player on that team. If he can score that many goals at Barcelona, why doesn't he score even half at International level if he's "that" good?

Without Barcelona, there is no Messi that we know....

03-20-2012, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ShadyVsEminem

He has torn the best English teams apart many times what chance would Wolves and Blackburn etc have? with the current state of defending in the EPL he would have a field day every saturday